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USCG Releases PSC Annual Report for 2014

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The Coast Guard’s Office of Commercial Vessel Compliance Foreign and Offshore Compliance Division, Released the Coast Guard’s Port State Control Annual Report for 2014.

The report provides key statistics related to the enforcement of regulations under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, the international Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, or MARPOL, and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, or ISPS.

Overall, PSC inspection activity has seen a slight decline over the last four years. In 2011 USCG conducted 10,129 safety exams and that number has slowly reduced with 2014 showing 9,232 exams. Three-year rolling average detention ratio was on a steady decline between 2011 and 2013 but has risen slightly for 2014. Detention went from all-time low in 2013 of 1.11% to 1.31% for this year. Detentions went up from 97 in 2011 to 143 in 2014.

It is important to note that despite a 5% decrease in ship visits from 2013, the percentage of detentions has risen by about 15% over that same time period. Coast Guard Districts 5, 7, 11, and 14 are the district where the number of detentions has increased significantly over the past year.

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Source: USCG

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AMSA 2014 Annual Report on PSC

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2014 marked the introduction of a significant step-change in Australia’s response to ships and operators who perform poorly on a consistent basis. In November and December 2014 AMSA used the directions power provided in section 246 of the Navigation Act 2012 to ban 2 ships from entering or using Australian ports for a period of 3 months.
During the calendar year 2014, 26,936 ship arrivals by 5674 foreign-flagged ships of which  3742 vessel inspected and resulted in 269 ship detentions. Bulk carriers accounted for 49 per cent of ship arrivals and 57 per cent of PSC inspections. PSC inspections were carried out in 54 Australian ports.

There was a total of 269 vessels detained in 2014.The average detention rate for all vessels was 7.2%. During 2014, AMSA surveyors recorded a total of 10,892 deficiencies giving a deficiency rate of 2.9 per inspection compared to 2.4 per inspection in 2013.

By drawing comparisons based on 10 years of Australian PSC data the outcome may be considered, at first view, to be disappointing with the apparent stabilisation of annual PSC deficiency and detention rates over the last 5 years. While there have been modest improvements experienced across a number of areas, the overall picture indicates that the international community’s PSC/ FSC efforts are not delivering lasting results. The principal causes of detention remain consistently related to International Safety Management (ISM), fire safety, lifesaving appliances and pollution prevention. It seems difficult to reconcile how well established requirements for fire safety, lifesaving appliances and pollution prevention continue to be such significant issues.

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Source: AMSA

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Black Sea MOU Annual PSC Report 2014

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Black Sea MOU released its Annual Report on Port State Control under the auspices of the Port State Control Committee of the Black Sea MOU.

This PSC Annual report covers the period between 1st January and 31st December 2014. During this period the BS MOU member Authorities conducted a total of 5,092 initial inspections, representing 0.24 per cent increase as compared with 5,080 initial inspections in 2013. The regional inspection rate is 69.41% which is 5.80% increase compared with 2013. A total of 151 detentions were warranted to ships found with serious deficiencies. This represents a detention percentage of 2.97% which is 0.65% decrease as compared with 184 detentions in 2013. During 2014 a total of 18,350 deficiencies were recorded. The average number of deficiencies per inspection was 3.60; resulting in a 0.14 deficiency point improvement.

The overall detention percentage in the region was 3.62% in 2013; in 2014 it decreased down to 2.97% as a percent of inspections, rather than the number of individual ships inspected to take into account that many ships are detained more than once during any one year.

Among the participating country of the MOU Russia recorded the maximum detention rate of 5.08%.

The BS MOU currently has 6 members, some with dual or even triple membership: Bulgaria, Romania and the Russian Federation with the Paris MOU, while the Russian Federation is also a member of the Tokyo MOU, with Turkey there is further tie with the MED MOU.

Source: BS MOU

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PSC Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) for Year 2015

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Tokyo MOU governing body met for its 25th Meeting  Queenstown, New Zealand, from 10 to 13 November 2014. CIC for year 2015, 2016 and 2017 was taken up and was decided that CIC on Crew Familiarization for Enclosed Space Entry that will be carried out from 1 September to 30 November 2015.

As seen in past, this CIC shall also be carried out jointly with Paris MOU and we are sure that other MOUs will also join this.

Paris MOU held its 84th Committee meeting last week and they have agreed to jointly with Tokyo MOU carry out CIC on Crew Familiarization for Enclosed Space Entry.

Loss of life during this hazardous activity has been concern for the industry for long and enclosed space entry drills and training at interval of 2 months became mandatory under amendments to SOLAS wef 01st Jan 2015.

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